Southeast Asian aquaculture: How far are we?


Mitchel Abaracoso Andrada

Aquagrow Corporation Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia

: J Mar Biol Oceanogr

Abstract


South Asia and Southeast Asian countries are the leading contributors of fish and fishery products in the world fish market. Countries such as China, Indonesia, India, Vietnam and Myanmar contest to be known as the prime fish producer in Asia, though China stands to be the biggest producer and consumer of fish since 2010 as stated in World Fisheries and Aquaculture Report of 2012. Other Asian countries, static, but thrive to produce good quality of fish, enhancing their productivity through alteration of the traditional fishing method into advanced technologies coming from the 1st World Countries. Reflecting the development of aquaculture industries, vis-à-vis’ commercialization is quiet imbalance due to unstable sustainability. Some challenges involve the kind of feed use and its supplementary, culture system and production, and poor biosecurity causing major disease outbreaks from the wild. Food security is now the key point towards attaining higher yield and productivity, a basic requirement for importation and export of fish and fishery products worldwide. The concept towards aquaculture changes and the desire of each country for a suitable fish farming center in the production of good quality of fish that are safe for human consumption, either inland or marine aquaculture.

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